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Course on International Humanitarian Law and Protection of Human
Rights

March 18 – 22, 2019.
166 Officer Cadets from the Italian Army Application
School and Carabinieri Officers School, and from
Albania, Niger, Senegal and Thailand, attended a
one-week course, in English language, focused on
International Humanitarian Law and on Protection of
Human Rights in modern Peace Operations.
The lessons, delivered both by civil and military
subject matter Experts (from Pisa “Sant’Anna’s Scho-
ol”, Bologna “John Hopkins” University and from
Milano, Torino, Padova and Verona Universities)
successfully caught the attention of the students and
were followed by working groups and a live exercise
on the field. The closing ceremony took place in the
CoESPU Compound, in the presence of Major Ge-
neral Riccardo Galletta (Carabinieri Officers School
Commander), Brigadier General Antonio Pennino
(Commander of the Army Application School Training Department) and Brigadier General Giovanni Pietro
Barbano (CoESPU Director).

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